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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
TEE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
xLExth CONGRESS.
Second Session

StCOuu Se3StOn
THURSDAY, Jan. 27.-The Senate passed
the Agricultural Experiment Station bill
and the bill for the relief of dependent
parents and of honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors now disabled.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill (s22,-
6y3, 856) was reported. In the House the
Senate bill prohibiting the Importation of
adulterated articles of food or drink was
reported favorably, and the joint resolu-
ton providing for the election of United
States Senators by the people of the United
States was reported adversely. The River
and Harbor bill $4,000, OOO) was passed by
vote of-yeas, 154; nays, o.
FRIDAY, Jan 2S-In the Senate bills
were reported to secure statistics of the
extent and value of the fishing interests
of the United States, and fixing the salaries
of the commissioners of education and
labor at 5000. Two messages from the
President were presented-one vetoing the
bill granting pension to Benjamin ODE
kiah, and the other vetoing the bill for the
relief of H. K. Belding The bill to pro-
hibit members Of Congress from acting as
attorneys or employees for railroad COM
panies aided by the Government was dis
cussed. In the House the time was occu-
pied principally in discussing the Pleuro-
Pneumonia bill
SATURDAY, Jan. 29.-In the Senate the
Railroad Attorney bill was discussed,
but no action was taken. In the House
bill appropriating $4,000 for the dis
tribution of seeds in the drought-strick
en- section of Texas was passed. The Seu-
ate bill for the protection of the morals of
minors in the District of Columbia was re-
ported, and the Post-office Appropriation
bill was passed
MONDAY, Jan. 81. "A bill was intro
duced in the Senate to amend the Ma
tlonal banking laws and resolution was
offered calling for information as to the
Apache Indians held in confinement in
Florida. A memorial was presented from
the Arkansas Legislature in favor of re-
turning to the cotton States the $67, 900, 900
of cotton tax collected The Sundry- Civil
Appropriation bill was further considered
In the House a bill was offered to increase
to $4,000 the salaries of the Supreme Court
justices and the Cabinet officers A resolu-
ton was offered proposing constitutional
amendments changing Inauguration day
to the last Tuesday in April; providing
that the Fiftieth Congress shall terminate
on the 31st of December, 1888, and the Fiji
ty-tirst Congress shall then begin; and
providing that Senators whose term of of
flee would not expire until March 4, 1889,
shall continue in Office until their sue
cessors are appointed or elected. The
Agricultural Appropriation bill was
passed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

EZRA B. TAYLOR and Ike H. Taylor,
who represent the Nineteenth and
Eighteenth Ohio districts in the House,
are brothers. Ike, the younger, looks
upon Ezra with almost reverential af-
lection, says the Atlanta Consultation.
Whenever Ezra speaks Ike secures a
seat near and drinks in every word as
ii 1t were gospel truth. When his
brother has finished, Ike goes to his
friends among the members and asks
their opinion of the effort. He does
not conceal the fact that he regards his
brother as one of the big men of Con-
gress."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
CARRIED OFF A SAFE.
Bold Robbery at Pennsburg, Pa, FRI
frafod I'm

Bold Robbery at Pennsburg, Pa, Frus-
trated in Peculiar Manner.
ALLENTOWN, Pa, Jan. 3L-At three
o'clock Thursday morning burglars broke
into the Office of DR.. j. G. Hlnegass, of
Pennsburg, and secured safe weighing
1,200 pounds, in which was a large sum of
money and bonds and papers valued at
over $1,000 They loaded it upon a truck
on the Perkomen railroad and started
south. Nearing McLeans Station, the
whistle of fast freight was heard ap-
preaching them on the same track. Not
having time to unload, the burglars de-
serted the truck and ran off. The train
struck the truck and was derailed, fortu-
nately being but little damaged No one
was hurt. The safe was picked up in the
ditch, placed on the train and returned to
its owner with the contents intact.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
A WINDFALL.

A Wilkesbarre Pa.) Alderman Receives
Notice That He Is One of the Heirs to-
S76,OO0.OOO Estate in Holland.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb. Alderman G.
S. Croft of this city has received intelli-
gence that his family has just become heir
to an estate in Holland valued at$76, 900, 600.
In 1907 the neutrality-suspicious. Of the
alderman was exiled from Holland and his
estate confscated by the Government. He
came to this country and his descendants
are now scattered over the Western
States, except few who are in New York.
The Dutch Government has just passed a
Dill restoring the estate with interest and
improvements to the family.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
Riot I'm ireland.

LONDON, Jan. a.-On Saturday evening
some soldiers Of the West Surrey regiment
insulted number of Catholic civilians.
The latter retaliated by throwing stones.
Over 100 persons were arrested by the 20
lice, and the troops were called out to re-
store quiet. The rioting was renewed last
night, when the police and the public ex-
changed shots. Many persons are said to
have been in iured.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
OCEAN HORRORS.

AZ, Fsn:igrant Ship Sunk OF the Coast OF
Brazil and Over 500 Souls Perish-Ex-
plosion of sa Internal Machine on an
old Dominion Steamer Oh Long Branch
Two Persons Injured
HUNDREDS Lost.
LONDON. Feb. 1.-The British ship Ka-
prnda, which left London on December il
for Fremansle, Western Australia, with
On. igrants, came into collision near the
coast of Brazil with an unknown vessel
and was sunk Three hundred of those on
board were drowned. The remainder were
saved and have arrived at Bahia. The Ka-
punda was an iron ship of 1,0S4 tons. She
was commanded by Captain Mason.
The survivors are mostly men and in
clude nearly all the crew. The women and
children went down with the awful surge
with which the vessel sank. The I'M
known vessel, supposed to have been an
armored war ship belonging 10
Chill. escaped in the darkness
without an attempt to rescue the victims
of the accident, She is blamed
for the collision by the Kapuna's people,
who say their lookout and lights were
efficient, while the other vessel, going at
full speed in spite of heavy Iog, paid no
attention and backed out as quickly as the
engines could he reversed, leaving ehasm
in the quarter of the emigrant vessel.
LONDON, Feb. 1.-The vessel with which
the Kapunda collided was the British bark
Ada Melmore, which also went to the bot
tom. All told 304 persons were drowned.
A FIENDIsH PLOT.
New Yotr, Feb 1.-The steamship Guy
andotte sailed ifgrs her pier in this city for
Norfolk at five d. nj. yesterday. When on
Long Branch an explosion occurred in the
after part of the saloon, by which Captain
Kelly and James Justine were slightly in
iured. The explosive is believed to have
been dynamite packed in a sachel that hao
been left in the closet-room.
The Guyandotte carried five saloon AMI
fifteen steerage passengers. The engines
were stopped and an investigation was be-
gun. 1t was discovered that hole about
fifteen feet square had been caused by the
explosion through the main and hurricane
decks, and much damage had been done IN
the s1leon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

AN oight-year-old boy was arrested
in Chicago few days ago, and locked
up, who at the time had a small rifle, a
bag of cartridges and violin tucked
under his arms. Twelve meal-tickets
and fourteen dollars in money were
found in his pockets. He said he had
run away from his home in Iowa, and
intended going West to slaughter In
dians. He was detained until his
father came for him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
A Son of Banker Seligman, of New York
Kept Prisoner by Montana Miners.

HELENA, M. T., Jan. 2S-Hon. A. J.
Seligman, H. w. Child, E. W. Bach and
Thomas West, officers Of the Gregory Min
ing Company, went to the mine
Wednesday, near Wicks, to close it
down, and were seized as security
by the exasperated miners, to whom two
months wages are due. The men closed
down the works and took possession of the
town. They are peaceable and orderly.
Bach, Child and West were finally allowed
to come to Helena to raise funds to pay the
men, Seligman being held as hostage
Seligman is the son of Jessie Seligman, of
Seligman Bros, bankers, of New York He
was married last month ard had just ar
rived with his bride.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

A MAN in Montreal who has been
struck by lightning three times claims
that the heavenly visitations cured him
OF rheumatism and dyspepsia. Light
ming has long been recognized as a
specific for all sorts of diseases, but it
is not often the patient is left in con-
dition to indite unsolicited testimonials.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
German War Views.

BERLIN, Feb. 1.-The National Liberal
Committee, in their address to the electors,
say: ''Neyer since the Franco German
war has the danger of great
conflict been so near. No statesman
can form any certain conclusion as TO
the future, even for a few weeks. The
peace of Europe rests at this moment sole
ly upon the strength, readiness for action
and moral trustworthiness of the German
army. The unpropitious issue Of the cleo
tons will bring down upon the country
war with all its terrors, and, even with the
best results, heavy losses.n
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
Caught ON a Bridge.

DANvILLE,, Ill, Jan. 2S.-While Johnston
Holman, a teamster, was crossing, with his
two sons, the trestle-work of the railroad
this side of Grape creek, an engine ran over
the two boys. One of them was terribly
mangled and killed. He was fourteen
years Of age. One leg of the other boy was
cut off, and he will probably die. The
father escaped unhurt, letting himself
down on the trestle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
Protection for Canada,s FjsherIes

OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. IA prominent Of
fetal confirms the report that the Imperial
Government will send out men-of-war next
| season to assist in protecting Canadian
fisheries. The reason why aid was not
rendered last season was due to the long
correspondence which had taken place be-
tween Canada and England on the matter,
and by the time the Imperial authorities
had settled on their policy the fishing sea-
son had nearly expired.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

AsAD outbreak of insanity is reported
from White Day, w. Va. Washington
Lake has five grown daughters. A Jew
weeks ago Tabitha got married, and
the young people of the neighborhood,
including her four sisters, celebrated
the event by dancing all night and
nearly all the next day. On the even
ing of the second day, Martha, one of
the sisters, lost her reason, and devel-
oped into raving maniac, and four
days later the bride was stark mad.
Since then the three other sisters had
exhibited evidences Of insanity, and the
worst was feared,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
The shootIng of Ravmond Relmnnt.

New YORK, Feb l. Coroner Erdman
says that after making strict inquiry he is
satisfied that the shooting OF Raymond
Belmont was purely accidental The ques-
ton of whether his death was accidental
or suicidal will, however, be left to a
jury. 1t seems the young man had
just returned from cornwall gath
ering and accompanied by a friend
went into the shooting gallery in the base
ment of his fathers residence to practice
shooting. His companion turned around
to close a door when he heard
shot. Looking back he saw young Bel
mont falling to the floor with the blood
gushing from wound in the head He
never spoke, dying in few minutes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

The annual live stock report of the
Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. for
1856, by the secretary, shows the total
receipts for the year, of cattle, calves,
hogs, sheep and horses, at the Chicago
Union Stock Yards, to have been 1870
$40. OF this number q table, giving
the receipts by railroads, shows the c..
B. & Q. to have delivered 2,535,9S1, or
twenty-siX per cent of the whole. Total
number of cars, POS, 461, of which the
O., B. & Q. had 1885 more than the
road having the next highest. being
twenty-seven per cent. of the total car
receipts.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

! SAw-MLL accidents-mostly boiler
oXplosions--have been frequently re-
ported of late. Commenting on this
fact, an exchange moralizes as fol-
lows: With the general use of
steam, all the poetry has gone out of
saw-mill accidents, The only pleas
ant ones were in the old days, when
saw-mills were run by water-power in
the woods, and where an occasional
bear would stray in and try to fight
the moving rip-saw. Never bear
whipped the rip-saw."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
Wittrock's Latest Statement-He Declares
Fotheringham to be Innocent.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. BIN the Missouri peni-
tertiary Fred Wittrock Saturday testified
that Messenger Fotheringham is innocent
of the charges brought against him in con-
nection with the San Francisco train-rob-
berry. Wittrock said that after he had
bound the messenger in the car and secured
the booty, he offered Fotheringham $4,000
if he would give the detectives false de-
scription of him (the robbery. Fothering-
ham replied: "Well I'l1 see about it; send
the money to j. j. Mappes, Kansas City"
Wittrock, however, did not do so, because,
he said, "Fotheriugkam gave too good a
description of me''
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

A MAN who has been spoken of in
connection with the mayoralty of Phil
ndelphia has won much favor, accord
ing to the papers of that city, by such
small yet significant details as al
ways having his sidewalk promptly
cleaned of snow, and ashes spread over
the ice. Cut this out and stick it in
your hat, gentle reader; it may be the
means of some day making you the
mayor Of your city. There's no know
iOp
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
spies, Betrothed writing a Book.

CHICAGO, Feb. Miss Van Zandt is
now engaged in getting ready for publica-
ton history of Spies and the other con-
demned Anarchists. An interesting feat
ure in the book is an photographed
sketch by Spies, in which he blasphemous-
ly compares himself to Christ, and finds an
analogy in the crucifxion to his own con-
demnation for melting the Haymarket
massacre.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
A GREAT SIGHT.
Brilliant Display at the Storming of S
Paul'S Ice Palace.

A(lSpIdy aG Ine SCOrmlng OF
PauIs Ice Palace.
ST PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 2S.-it is estimated
that fully $4,000 strangers witnessed last
night the second storming of the ice
palace. Probably 100000 people gathered
within and outside the Enclosure and
on the hills near by, while from 5000
to 5000 men and women in gay uni.
forms marched through the streets and
joined in the attack. At given signal the
assault began and for half an hour the ali
was filled with rockets and fire-balls of
every conceivable color, lighting up the
palace in a manner indescribably beauti-
full. Suddenly, from the very summit OF
the main tower poured a fiery torrent
down the sides to the ground, and for a
time the castle seemed to be ablaze, a
veritahle Niagara of light
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

The main building for the American
Exhibition in London this year will be
constructed of steel railroad rails, and
it is thought that this plan solves the
problem of erecting fre-proof tenn
porary buildings with the utmost speed
and at the least cost.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

BARNUM's great African lion, "Ken-
nedy," aged over twenty years and val
ued at So, 900, which had for year suf-
tered from paralysis of the limbs, was
put to death in New York recently
with sixteen ounces of chloroform.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

THE public debt of Canada has in
creased, it is said, seventy-fve dollars
"a minute during the whole of Sir John
Macdonald's administration, allowing
ten working hours day and twenty
six working days to the month.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

MAINE and Ohio people are worried
about hard cider. The Maine Legisla-
ture has a bill preventing the sale of
apple juice over twenty days old, and
the Dow law in Ohio makes hard cider
an intoxicant.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

THERE is now IN preparation "a Life
of General John A. Logan" by Mr..
Dawson, late Librarian of the Senate at
Washington, who was an intimate
friend of the General. He will be as
sisted in the work by Mrs. Logan.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. %. "A number of
prominent colored men of the State held a
meeting yesterday and appointed CON-
mittee to issue a call for National con-
vention. The object is to devise plan for
erecting monument or memorial hall to
John Brown
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
The FLOOD at PORT IIenos,t.

PORT DEPOSIT, Nd, Jan. 31-The ice
gorge remains unbroken, and the main
street is still four feet under water. The
situation here is becoming more serious, as
provisions and fuel are growing scarce.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

MISS RANsoM'S portrait of President
Garfield, which Mrs. Garfield says is
the best ever painted, was unvailed in
the Soldiers Memorial Hall at Toledo,
o., tie other evening.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

THE Duke of Sutherland, who is now
in Washington, owns 425,000 acres of
land in this country, besides holding
an undisputed title to little patch in
England of ], 1858 acres.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
A. Heavy Failure,

MONTREAL, Can, Jan. 2S.-Pinkerton &
Turner, extensive boot and shoe manufact-
urers here, have made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors. The direct liabiH-
ties are $4,000, ana indirect $4,000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

IT is said that Senator Jones, of Ne
vada, has been offered $1,O0O,O0O for
his interest in the rancho San Vinta at
Santa Monica, CAL, but refused. He
paid $3.50. 900 for If.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

A BOX of Strawberries which Editor
Singerly, of Philadelphia, sent to Editor
Childs the other day were raised in the
formers greenhouse at cost of three
hundred dollars.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
Black Diphtheria.

MADISON, Wis, Jan. 31.-Black diphtheria
IS raging ten miles northeast of this place.
Peter Myers, farmer, has lost five chill.
dren. The schools at Waneka have beer
closed and the town quarantined
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

SPANISH merchants in New York
have taken steps toward the formation
of Spanish Chamber of Commerce in
that city.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

A FUND has been started at Lewiston,
Me-, for the relief of Scion Chase, the
once influential Greenbacker, who has
been left homeless by fire.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

A LII before the State Legislature
of Tennessee makes it a criminal
offense to preach polygamous doc
trines in the State.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

The inhabitants of the Andaman
Islands are the smallest race of people
in the world. The average height of a
full-grown Andaman is four feet five
inches, and few weigh over seventy-six
pounds. They are marvelously swift
of foot, and, as they smear themselves
over with a mixture of oil and red
oeher, present very strange appear
ance. Few travellers care to encounter
any of these bellicose little people, for
their skill in throwing the spear and in
using the bow is only equaled by their
readiness to attack strangers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

Societies for the advancement of
dress reform for women have been es-
tablished in Sweden, Norway, Den
mark and Finland. They intend to
work on the same lines as the English
Rational Dress Society, and, as far as
possible, in connection with it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

"A young woman was recently poi
soned by the arsenic washed on to her
face from two birds on her bonnet
while she was riding during rain
storm. She is now out of danger.
Lynn (Mass. Bee.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

An En:igrant Ship sunk OF the Coast of
Brazil and Over 500 Souls Perish-Ex-
pIosion of sa Internal Machine on an
Old Dominion Stssnaer Oh Long Branen
Two ParSnnS Tnfured,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-09

south of us. By little after O'Clock he
returned to the scene of the disaster with
an en- zine, two fat cars and q caboose,
and TOOK the passengers CT his Inflated
train 0slE to Hilisboro, where they waited
until the road could be rnpsirai and al
other train from the so;'H c.Tna along.
have thus far simply given Il statement
Of what l saw, experienced and knew at
the tine OF the disaster. Now for what |
learned as to the time, place and produc-
ing cause of the wreck. It was with
in few minutes of o'clock
on the morning of Monday, March I, that
we took our grand slide. The point was
on the eastern approach to trestle about
seven miles north of Hillsboro. An in
spection of the road by daylight slowed
that the first wheels left the track on &C
count of the spreading of the rails, which
was caused by the decsyed condition of
the cross ties. This spreading is thought
to have occurred after the driving
wheels of the engine had passed
but under the pressure of its rear wheels.
1t is not improper to state that the train
and sleeper conductors aud gil of their
assistants Gid everything in their power
TO relieve tae passengers from the I'M
comfortable and perilous positions in
which they were placed. But too much
cannot be said in condemnation of the
directors OF the road for allowing it's
road to be in such a condition. 1t is g
piece Of criminal negligence which should
if possible be severely punished.
The conduct OF passengers was charac-
terized by degree of calmness, self
possession and consideration, each for
all the others, which was .ruly admire
Bile to behold. and bat for Mh!Gh Rome
would certainly have suffered il the pro-
cess of Liberation from their PRISONS
The passengers were unanimous in theft
expressions Of gratitude to train Con-
ductor c. B. SwsTtz and sleeper Con-
ductor II. L. Sears for the faithful and
self-sacritcing manner in which they
discharged the duties devolving upon
them.
We were ell comfortably entertained al
Hillsboro during the day, aud reached
Fort Worth without further accident Q
little after 9 o'clock this evening.
SAM FURMAN.